Infant Education

Can you imagine that when you go to the open day of a school they doubt whether your child "fits" in the center or they suggest that you look for another "more according to your needs"? Well this happens. Nowadays. And that is why the Fundación Secretariado Gitano has launched the campaign I do not want a segregated school to make visible a situation that affects thousands of Roma children throughout Spain and violates their right to education and perpetuates discrimination.

As a result of the shootings in several schools in Florida, in the United States they have begun to use therapeutic dogs to offer comfort and support to the students at the time of returning to classes. Science has shown that therapeutic dogs can reduce stress and make people feel more united in difficult situations.

We never know when someone in our environment may need medical assistance, perhaps a respiratory or heart problem where a good resuscitation maneuver can be key to saving a life. For us to see the importance of having this knowledge, we only have to mention the fifteen-year-old boy who last Sunday practiced cardiopulmonary resuscitation maneuvers to his own father, saving his life and keeping him stable until the emergency services arrived.

Educators and researchers agree that the first experiences in education are important for children's cognitive and linguistic development. During the last 30 years there has been a strong movement to improve the children's literacy level and it has resulted in a lot of information for parents on how they can improve their children's educational level by reading books, singing children's songs, playing to word games and noticing impressions.

Much has been studied about disruptive behaviors during childhood, their characteristics and causes. However, until recently it was unknown which of the many breeding techniques there are, was the most effective to reduce them to the maximum. It has always been thought that treating this type of behavior with exclusive behavior management techniques was the most appropriate, but a recent study has determined the importance of combining it with techniques that foster the relationship between parents and children.

It is clear that children are no longer born with a bread under their arm but rather with a last generation smartphone that they handle a thousand times better than us. Although as parents we must control the use that minors make of technology so that it is always with responsibility, this does not mean that we cannot exploit the benefits it brings.

Holidays are rest days for adults and children. Insurance? The reality is that many children cannot enjoy their free time as they should because of their countless homework. In many cases, there are schools that even send homework or extra booklets for holiday periods, but where is the time to play?

We all agree that children must learn Spanish and English to have certain guarantees of a successful professional future, but when we get into co-official languages, in the autonomous communities that have them, there is already a complicated debate. I am a professor of physics and chemistry in Galicia, a subject that by law in ESO is taught there in Spanish, but if in some course I have to give biology and geology, then by law the class will be in Galician.

Every time a new academic year begins, many families ask themselves in which nursery or school to school their children. Many preschools and schools offer a different approach during the early years of children's education and each center defends the benefits of its school program.

Our parents learned the list of the Goth Kings, we the list of prepositions in Spanish or the tributaries on the right and on the left of the most prominent rivers ... We all agree that, today, anything we want to know about we can find in a matter of seconds with our mobile on the internet and that, therefore, learning things from this type of memory makes less and less sense.

For some children, science is interesting and fascinating since they are little. That natural curiosity in them and their desire to learn, motivate them to continue discovering and knowing about the world around them and to create or invent things that help others. This is the case of Xóchitl Guadalupe Cruz López, who with only eight years, is the first girl in all of Mexico to receive the “ICN Recognition for women”, granted by the Institute of Nuclear Science of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM ).

Educating a child is not easy, and although most of us try to do it in the best possible way, also relying on teachers and teachers, we have to be very aware of the importance of educating in values ​​and preaching with our example, because in our hands there is the future generation of men and women of our society.

Motivating our children to be better people is something we should always work as parents. At school, this work continues with the support of teachers, who in some cases have gone further, such as that teacher who wrote messages of encouragement on the desks to her students. And although at school those who guide our children are their teachers, we can also get involved in activities that help them grow.

Did you know that children spend 14 percent of the time they spend awake between daycare and school? Given this information, it is not surprising that most of the learning occurs "outside": playing in the park, during extracurricular activities, in the museum, taking a walk, through the media and, perhaps most importantly , at home .

Bullying is an undeniable problem. Just take a look at the figures to realize it. In Spain, one in 10 students say they have suffered bullying, according to a Save the Children report on bullying in Spain. In order that these abuses do not recur and eventually disappear, a series of initiatives such as the KiVa anti-bullying program have been launched.

Knowing and knowing about first aid is something that everyone should be prepared for, because you never know when we might need to act quickly to help save another person's life. Many times we overlook teaching children what they should do in an emergency, when they could even help in emergency situations.

In Spain, the legal age to use social networks is fourteen. However, there are many children who are not even at this age and have a profile on social networks. Therefore it is not surprising that this week we knew that 97 experts have sent a letter to Mark Zuckerberg asking him to remove the Facebook Messenger Kids application.

Bullying or bullying is something that many generations of children have suffered and in which now a joint effort is made to continue fighting to eradicate it. However, there is still a lot to do, since there are still thousands of children who are teasing and ill-treated by their peers every day.

Unfortunately, bullying is the order of the day. We see it in the news continuously and it seems that violence lurks in every corner. As parents we feel fear because we try to constantly keep our children from these types of situations but it is not always possible. Although they seem isolated, the truth is that two out of ten students suffer bullying in the world, according to the report of Unesco: Ending the Torment: Tackling bullying from the schoolyard to cyberspace.

Teaching our children from an early age to be responsible for their finances is undoubtedly something very valuable that we can inherit as parents. That they know from an early age to manage money and understand the value of things, will be for them one of the best life lessons we can provide.